Evil empire : a reckoning with power
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Evil empire : a reckoning with power
(Forum, 8)
Boston Review : Distributed by the MIT Press, c2018
- : pbk
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"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Yuri Herrera, Pankaj Mishra, Frank Pasquale, Arundhati Roy, Nikhil Pal Singh"--Cover
"This issue of Boston Review is made possible by the generous support of the Cameron Schrier Foundation and an Anonymous Donor."
Summary: On back cover: "All history," writes Maximillian Alvarez in his contribution, "is the history of empire--a bid for control of that greatest expanse of territory, the past." Evil Empire confronts these histories head-on, exploring the motivations, consequences, and surprising resiliency of empire and its narratives. Contributors grapple with the economic, technological, racial, and rhetorical elements of U.S. power and show how the effects are far-reaching and, in many ways, self-defeating. Drawing on a range of disciplines--from political science to science fiction--our authors approach the theme with imagination and urgency, animated by the desire to strengthen the fight for a better future
Contents of Works
- The end of the end of history / Maximillian Alvarez
- Banking on the Cold War / Nikhil Pal Singh
- The welfare world / Adom Getachew
- The absurd apocalypse / Arundhati Roy interviewed by Avni Sejpal
- What white supremacists know / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- The sources of U.S. conduct / Stuart Schrader
- Puerto Rico's war on its poor / Marisol LeBrón
- Empire's racketeers / Pankaj Mishra interviewed by Wajahat Ali
- Intellectuals against noticing / Jeanne Morefield
- The burden of being good / Michael Kimmage
- Quantifying love / Frank Pasquale
- Monsters vs. empire / Mark Bould
- Appendix 15, number 2. The agent probii exploration / Yuri Herrera ; translated by Lisa Dillman